Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month!
Disability Pride Month was celebrated July 2015, 25 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed and continues to be celebrated in July. The ADA is a law the prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in areas of public life and affords people the rights to certain accommodations.
Disability Pride Month celebrates disabled persons embracing their disabilities as integral parts of who they are, reclaiming visibility in public and interacting fully with their disabilities out in the open, and rejecting shame and internalized ableism. It is a time for the disability community to come together, uplift, and amplify one another’s voices and be heard. Disability pride has been described as “accepting and honoring each person’s uniqueness and seeing it as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity.” Source
References
https://adata.org/learn-about-ada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_Pride_Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_Pride_Parades
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Forums
Disability Pride Flag: How you Relate
Disability Pride in the World - Upcoming
Feelings About Disability Pride
Chatrooms
Adults
Thursday July 20th, 11 am EDT -Relation to Your Life with Beck1
more to come
Teens
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Hmmm...
Though I'm glad the ADA was passed (at the very least there are wheelchair ramps & more escalators now), I can't say I'm totally on board with this. Mainly because
- while I am not ashamed to be disabled, I'm not particularly proud of it either. Frankly I don't see why it merits pride. Most of us didn't do anything to become disabled; it just happened by accident/heredity/etc. That makes it no sin or misdeed, certainly...no shame there. But it is also not an achievement. Earning a promotion at work, completing a work of art or a major project, conquering some kind of challenge; those are feats that merit pride. Disability, more often than not, is something that happens to us. Even if disability were something to be earned, let's be honest: how many of us would really want to attain such status? I know I could do without mine.
- I am suspicious of phrases such as "internalized ableism". IME such phrases are commonly deployed as an attempt to dismiss someone when in an online argument & the other person has no real answer to the statement that has just been put forth. If the opponent cannot answer any of your points then (s)he will accuse you of "internalized ableism" or "internalized sexism"--or else (s)he'll default to the usual "you're racist". Also, "internalized" anything is pop psychology...more specifically, it attempts to frame any difference of opinion as a form of mental derangement. As a tactic for maintaining political orthodoxy it works; as a tool for clear reasoning, it fails completely.
@slowdecline48
isnt being proud of getting disabled is about just being proud of who you are and time to share things about disabilities so other people learn and understand AND share things accomplish even though really really hard BECAUSE disabled
I am born disabled do not learn to read write until after I’m 10 and really really really proud of me that learn do that after teachers all say NEVER will and even more proud is I can read write English and read write some Hawaiian and do sign language is thing very proud I learn and all challenge I learn getting past so hard hard to me because of disabilities
I am not person will have job I will not get college thing never drive or live my own or anything ! severe disabilities different and if not proud who I am even so much disabilities then nothing to be proud of because my disabilities make every thing my whole life big deal and is why important have own time to share things for people that don’t know about things
also important because lot of people still not accepting disabled people and don’t think of things to make better for people is lot of things need change still to make world safe and good for people that is disabled
@theboymoana. I really like what you said about being proud of who you are. I’m still working on this with regards to my disability.
@adventurousBranch3786 thanks ! I didn’t know if made sense am glad people can understand what I mean 🥲it’s ok still working on that I am to some days better some days feel really bad who I am . but think is ok not able be proud all the time
No one is able to feel proud of themselves all the time, Moana...(the only possible exception I can think of is people with full-blown ASPD. Apparently it's easy to always be proud of oneself when one has no conscience or any empathy for other people) I certainly don't feel proud of myself all the time, & I'm a fairly accomplished person in some ways. We all have rough days...it's just part of life.
@slowdecline48
i don’t say have be proud every day know can’t be every day don’t know aspd means but know ok have rough days have lot rough days but still try be proud and try like self most time even if sometimes whole weeks don’t like anything of me !
This is great. Commenting so I don't lose the thread. Back later.
Just wanted to comment so I don't lose the thread.
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@slowdecline48 Thanks for telling, me Slow Decline. At some point in my life, I think I was aware of this, but your note made me "more" aware, since I just noticed too, that I commented on this thread Twice, which is a little funny, but I guess I really want to get back to it and participate in some of the activities! Anyway, thanks for your reminder!
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Hi, I was wondering how this Community might feel about labeling this community as disAbility, rather than disability, to emphasize our many Abilities. It's a different way of thinking.